W. T. Read

13.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
21 papers, 8.2k citations indexed

About

W. T. Read is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, W. T. Read has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 8.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 6 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 6 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in W. T. Read's work include Microstructure and mechanical properties (4 papers), Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies (4 papers) and Surface and Thin Film Phenomena (4 papers). W. T. Read is often cited by papers focused on Microstructure and mechanical properties (4 papers), Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies (4 papers) and Surface and Thin Film Phenomena (4 papers). W. T. Read collaborates with scholars based in United States and Japan. W. T. Read's co-authors include W. Shockley, J. D. Eshelby, G. L. Pearson, R. G. Treuting, Ajit Ram Verma, François Morin, F Seitz, Morris Cohen, E. Orowan and J. S. Koehler and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Applied Physics, Physics Today and Bell System Technical Journal.

In The Last Decade

W. T. Read

21 papers receiving 7.5k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Statistics of the Recombinations of Holes and Electrons

1952 4.9k citations W. Shockley, W. T. Read Physical Review profile →
Anisotropic elasticity with applications to dislocation theory

1953 671 citations J. D. Eshelby, W. T. Read et al. Acta Metallurgica profile →
Dislocations in Crystals

1953 618 citations W. T. Read Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information (Royal Gardens Kew) profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
W. T. Read United States	16	5.6k	3.0k	2.6k	933	778	21	8.2k
J. W. Matthews United States	32	3.2k 0.6×	3.8k 1.3×	2.5k 0.9×	809 0.9×	544 0.7×	78	6.2k
H. J. Levinstein United States	37	3.0k 0.5×	2.7k 0.9×	2.1k 0.8×	331 0.4×	235 0.3×	126	5.2k
John A. Woollam United States	43	3.8k 0.7×	2.3k 0.8×	3.9k 1.5×	1.0k 1.1×	373 0.5×	340	8.2k
Nabil M. Amer United States	33	2.6k 0.5×	2.9k 1.0×	1.7k 0.7×	1.8k 1.9×	165 0.2×	83	7.0k
J. E. E. Baglin United States	39	2.0k 0.4×	2.1k 0.7×	1.4k 0.5×	538 0.6×	541 0.7×	117	4.3k
R. Hull United States	47	5.1k 0.9×	4.1k 1.4×	2.8k 1.1×	538 0.6×	366 0.5×	294	8.5k
G. L. Pearson United States	35	3.3k 0.6×	2.7k 0.9×	1.5k 0.6×	136 0.1×	174 0.2×	96	4.8k
J. P. Harbison United States	54	6.9k 1.2×	6.6k 2.2×	3.0k 1.1×	281 0.3×	364 0.5×	262	10.5k
L. I. Maissel United States	16	1.9k 0.3×	597 0.2×	1.2k 0.5×	784 0.8×	190 0.2×	31	3.1k
H. A. Macleod United States	30	3.5k 0.6×	1.7k 0.6×	1.4k 0.5×	487 0.5×	176 0.2×	112	6.3k

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Read, W. T.. (1958). A Proposed High-Frequency, Negative-Resistance Diode. Bell System Technical Journal. 37(2). 401–446. 376 indexed citations

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Read, W. T. & Pierre Coulomb. (1957). Les dislocations dans les cristaux. Dunod eBooks. 3 indexed citations

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Read, W. T.. (1957). Dislocation theory of plastic bending. Acta Metallurgica. 5(2). 83–88. 31 indexed citations

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Pearson, G. L., et al.. (1957). Deformation and fracture of small silicon crystals. Acta Metallurgica. 5(4). 181–191. 235 indexed citations

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Read, W. T.. (1956). Theory of the Swept Intrinsic Structure. Bell System Technical Journal. 35(6). 1239–1284. 13 indexed citations

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Fletcher, R. C., W. A. Yager, G. L. Pearson, et al.. (1954). Spin Resonance of Donors in Silicon. Physical Review. 94(5). 1392–1393. 109 indexed citations

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Read, W. T.. (1954). CXXIV. Statistics of the occupation of dislocation acceptor centres. The London Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science. 45(370). 1119–1128. 91 indexed citations

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Verma, Ajit Ram & W. T. Read. (1954). Crystal Growth and Dislocations. Physics Today. 7(9). 17–17. 106 indexed citations

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Vogel, F.L., et al.. (1954). Recombination of Holes and Electrons at Lineage Boundaries in Germanium. Physical Review. 94(6). 1791–1792. 20 indexed citations

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Pearson, G. L., W. T. Read, & François Morin. (1954). Dislocations in Plastically Deformed Germanium. Physical Review. 93(4). 666–667. 146 indexed citations

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Read, W. T.. (1954). LXXXVII. Theory of dislocations in germanium. The London Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science. 45(367). 775–796. 380 indexed citations

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Koehler, J. S., Morris Cohen, F Seitz, et al.. (1954). Dislocations in metals. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 151 indexed citations

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Read, W. T.. (1953). Dislocations and plastic deformation. Physics Today. 6(11). 10–13. 4 indexed citations

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Eshelby, J. D., W. T. Read, & W. Shockley. (1953). Anisotropic elasticity with applications to dislocation theory. Acta Metallurgica. 1(3). 251–259. 671 indexed citations breakdown →

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Read, W. T.. (1953). Dislocations in Crystals. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information (Royal Gardens Kew). 618 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pearson, G. L., W. T. Read, & W. Shockley. (1952). Probing the Space-Charge Layer in ap−nJunction. Physical Review. 85(6). 1055–1057. 15 indexed citations

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Shockley, W. & W. T. Read. (1952). Statistics of the Recombinations of Holes and Electrons. Physical Review. 87(5). 835–842. 4898 indexed citations breakdown →

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Treuting, R. G. & W. T. Read. (1951). A Mechanical Determination of Biaxial Residual Stress in Sheet Materials. Journal of Applied Physics. 22(2). 130–134. 234 indexed citations

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Read, W. T.. (1951). Plasticity of Crystalsby E. Schmid and W. Boas. Acta Crystallographica. 4(4). 384–384. 2 indexed citations

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Read, W. T.. (1951). Formulas for the Determination of Residual Stress in Wires by the Layer Removal Method. Journal of Applied Physics. 22(4). 415–416. 2 indexed citations

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